Above the law. A member of the Chicago Police Department’s Area Two School Patrol, quoted in Trends and Issues 91: “We had an incident on the last day of school. The principal called us into his office and said, ‘Here, I want to turn this in.’ He handed me a .38 revolver. When I asked him where he got it, he said he took it off a kid two or three months earlier, but he didn’t want to do anything about it at the time. I told him, ‘If I take this gun, I’m taking you too.’”
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“My experience as an Italian-American Catholic girl in no way resembles the ridiculous stereotypes presented in the media and believed by some people who call themselves progressive,” writes Rose Romano in the Chicago-based Christian feminist magazine Daughters of Sarah (Fall). “As I was growing up in a Catholic grade school, the real world was run by women. Men had control of distant things, like history, war, business, and major sports events like the bocce ball games under the El on 39th Street. But women were in charge of near things, important things, such as food, family, home, school, and love. And the woman who runs everything, who’s the boss of the whole world and not just of one family, the woman who has always protected me, is the Virgin Mary.”
Can you really get drug users to stick with sterile syringes? No problem, says Dr. Donald DesJarlais, as quoted by the Physicians Association for AIDS Care on West Grand. “It’s really much easier to motivate behavior change in drug injectors than in politicians. Drug injectors are concerned about AIDS.”
